938d939059a23aa84ce493db0c4d542748f849a7 Leaving this here for a rainy day. It's related tohttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/958494488061595649 …
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"What's that, Patrick?" It's a hash of a short text file to prove that I had the information in the text file no later than the timestamp of this tweet, because I feel like bragging in the future if I'm right on this. "Is that blockchain?" *sigh* No, that is not blockchain.
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Replying to @patio11
Did that Jan 28 one ever materialize or are you still sitting on it?
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Replying to @patio11
Is it just the hash of a string of text? Or a pastebin address or something where you recorded your prediction? Mostly just curious of the mechanics
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Replying to @mikeydoubled
It's the hash of a text file. The mechanics of redemption is "Paste the text file and point back to prior disclosure of the hash", at some point in the future. The social purpose of this is a nod to something which happens in the security community.
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Replying to @patio11 @mikeydoubled
In the security community, there is a professional reputation component to having discovered security vulnerabilities, but publishing the vulnerabilities in real time is occasionally dangerous for users, so one might pre-register a claim for geek cred then wait for patch.
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After the patch drops, you want to say "Oh, I knew about that before knowing about it was cool", and skeptical members of the community will say "Easy to say that", and then you say "That's why I published this hash of this here text file. See mailing list/IRC logs/Twitter/etc."
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Replying to @patio11
Thanks -- I'd seen hashes on Twitter before (often from security folks) but rarely the follow-up of what they were predicting, appreciate the walk through.
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